PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Alternative Airlines’ Managing Director Sam Argyle said the new method would offer customers convenience, as well as a sense of safety and trust. The company also allows for 70 different currencies from regions around the globe, including Brunei, Aruba, Hong Kong, Haiti and others.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2018

Blockchain gets scrutiny on all sides, and in one looming examination, the United States Senate will examine the impact blockchain has on the energy ecosystem — specifically, how it affects the use of electricity. Energy Manager Today reported on Thursday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The card is designed to integrate services, including expense and recurring payment management for SMB users, as well as a rewards program. It is the need of the hour for businesses that depend a lot on online tools that accept only credit cards. In a statement at the time, Visa group country manager of India and South Asia, T.R.

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CB Insights

JULY 18, 2018

Investors from around the globe are flocking to Latin America — within the first half of 2018, deep-pocketed investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and DST Global have backed startups in the region. Since 2012, investments into the region have nearly tripled. GIC, Tiger Global Management, ICONIQ Capital.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2018

Online retailer eBay has launched a joint venture with a unit of Citic Private Equity Funds Management Co. As reported by Caixin Global on Thursday (March 8), eBay signed an agreement with the Citic unit, Orange Connex Holding, with the joint venture to be called Orange Connex Ltd.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

In an interview with Karen Webster, Brent Warrington, Hyperwallet’s general manager, said the collaboration spans local funds disbursement options across several geographies, well beyond the United States and on a daily basis. Lime, for its part, has stated that growth has been especially rapid in Latin America.

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MAY 3, 2018

trillion, and, as CFO Martina Hund-Mejean stated on the conference call with analysts, most regions saw double-digit growth. In the United States, gross dollar volume was up 10 percent, gaining a percent from last quarter. The company said that worldwide gross dollar volume gained 14 percent to $1.4 billion consensus.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Apple, Fitbit, Garmin, Pebble, Jawbone all have a stake in the game, while Microsoft may have lost its standing with the removal of the Band from online shelves. United States Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Eccrine Systems $3.96 A new wearable may be entering the game, specifically focused on sweat. Eccrine Systems, Inc.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Cross-border online commerce — awash with opportunities to claim new customers and, of course, grow top lines — should quicken the collective pulse of U.S. To capitalize on that aforementioned eCommerce growth in emerging markets and log sales in those regions, U.S. based online merchants shift their focus outward from domestic shores.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

In PYMNTS’ May 2020 Disbursements Tracker® done in collaboration with Ingo Money , an assortment of methods are assessed for their value in getting CARES Act payouts to people and businesses faster, at a decisive moment for the United States and its legendary economy. Betting on Faster Payments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

“If a firm needs to digitally onboard someone and verify them, we can help that company do that fairly seamlessly,” Samer Atassi, regional director, Latin America and Caribbean for Jumio, told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. Opportunity, he noted, abounds. A Diversity Of Needs.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2018

And, in regions where digital tools have long been available, new innovations are providing more intelligent financial insights than ever before. . Digital banking capabilities are currently making their big debut in markets that had yet to tap in to the potential of mobile and online finance management solutions. .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2016

The retail giant said it is a mere six to nine months away from deploying drones for superior management of its warehouse inventories in the United States, Reuters reported. Walmart’s announcement comes after it applied for a license to test drones for end-to-end fulfillment of online orders in October last year.

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JUNE 19, 2019

million in fresh funding, capital that will go toward “a B2B offering (that allows) individual travel agents at large online travel management companies and tour operators to offer a ‘seamless travel experience’ to their end customers, making the booking experience simpler, faster and cheaper.”. Multiple Payment Struggles.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

30), as management eyes digital checkout and other high-tech payments initiatives in the U.S. percent year on year, edged analysts’ estimates slightly, though management noted that revenue on a currency-neutral basis, and excluding items, was up 17 percent. ” As for a timeframe, he stated that “it’s going to be a run.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

As Red Dot Managing Partner Yaniv Stern told Karen Webster in a recent interview, the venture capital firm’s new eastern outlook is all about post-pandemic recovery and growth. While the United States will remain Red Dot’s largest market and focal point, looking east will help diversify revenue and risk.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

That’s the amount that Klook — a startup based in Hong Kong, which focuses on the travel industry — raised in funding earlier this month, eyeing a continued push into the United States and Europe. The users themselves come from more than 80 countries and regions, he said. There are macro tailwinds in place, he told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

While much has been written about India’s vast unbanked population — roughly one-eighth by the World Bank’s estimates — the more important issue to really look at is how much of India ’s population is under banked , Mandar Agashe , founder, managing director and vice chairman of Sarvatra Technologies told Karen Webster.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Meanwhile, technology changes continued at a breakneck pace, with generative AI the biggest topic around management tables. billion bank in the Mid-Atlantic region. GonzoBanker of the Year (Regional Bank) – goes to Huntington Bancshares Chairman and CEO Steve Steinour. That’s enough to send normal people into the fetal position.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Online charitable giving, as well, presents its own set of issues. To get a sense of how the nonprofit industry stands in terms of size in the United States alone, Mosawi said that in 2016, roughly $390 billion was donated to nonprofit organizations. Within that $390 billion, online giving was up 10 percent last year.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

Interest rates are going negative in at least some regions in Europe. And of course, the global economy is slowing … and you might have heard that a trade war between the United States and China remains as a headwind to growth. And here lies the tale of two different channels — online and offline.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2018

Peter Shore, general manager of payments services firm Transpay , and Guillermo Bracciaforte, co-founder of online freelance marketplace Workana , recently spoke with PYMNTS about the payment preferences of gig workers and making gig economy payments more efficient. The ecosystem will grow at double digits,” he said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

We’ve been working with him over the course of this year, and given our renewed focus on our acquisition and financing approach, now was the right time to ask him to step in to manage our upstream banking relationships and the fleet management.”. Big Changes. That’s hardly all.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

We’ve been working with him over the course of this year, and given our renewed focus on our acquisition and financing approach, now was the right time to ask him to step in to manage our upstream banking relationships and the fleet management.”. Big Changes. That’s hardly all.

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JUNE 22, 2017

And while the cybercriminals of the world certainly have managed to capture our collective attention — not to mention our passwords, social security numbers and card data — it seems fair to remember that eCommerce is a big ecosystem and has room for thieves of all kinds. Even porch pirates, for example. By the Numbers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

In January eCommerce leader Wayfair had to thin its employee ranks to meet profit targets, and just this week regional Midwestern home furnishings retailer Art Van Furniture filed for bankruptcy with minimal customer notice. Branch sells to individual consumers as well as office purchase managers. Furniture is a tough business.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

After it became illegal in the United States through the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, the business of selling cannabis went mostly underground. Now that cannabis is recreationally legal in eight states and medically legal in another 19 states, it may not be too much longer until it’s legal through the entire United States.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

International businesses, he said, are performing “fabulously,” with $500 million in revenue outside the United States, where growth was 14 percent year over year. Digitization for bank partners continues apace, said Bisignano, with JV partners promoting end-to-end digital experiences for signing up merchants, online and in-branch.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2016

Those three APAC countries, in fact, represent more than 50 percent of the home regions of international students in Japan, the total number of which rose 10 percent in 2014 and is on pace to reach 300,000 by 2020. Having a strong regional director to help with local expertise is “critical,” says Massaro.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 17, 2020

New regional banks will struggle with operational maturity and customer experience. Operationally, these M&A-birthed regionals are a mess that will require years of process improvement and streamlined automation to achieve the customer experience levels necessary to stay independent. This must change from the top.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

If pre-season estimates were correct, this holiday season was worth $1 trillion in the United States alone. As demand rose, they moved from being an online-only offering to being available in physical stores, which now accounts for 20 percent of their Australia business. “We

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2018

Once cards became significantly harder to clone, fraudsters took their bag of bad tricks online. At least, that is the narrative that most people in developed countries have internalized, said Derek Pak, regional head of Customer Fraud Management for Asia-Pacific at Mastercard , in a recent conversation with Karen Webster.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

The lockdown of the United States economy quickly and radically changed the way consumers browsed, shopped and paid for services as well as goods — and not all small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) were prepared. FIs need to have the ability to find and thwart fraud, without accidentally sweeping up legitimate clients.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Visner of the National Cybersecurity Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) — managed by nonprofit MITRE , in support of the NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence — said it’s important to put the cyberthreats, and Iran’s willingness to deploy them, in context. “As

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2017

In an interview with PYMNTS, Andreas Suma, vice president, product line manager of fraud and data at ACI Worldwide , said data naturally comes from multiple sources both internal and external to a firm, and value lies in both types because it can give an accurate picture of customer behavior and of fraudulent behavior.

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Gonzobanker

MARCH 23, 2020

The United States started responding about two months late, and widespread testing only become available in the last week. What We Know: Customers must do business online and by phone. million accounts had been opened online in the last year and 75% of all new customers are mobile-active. CONSUMER BEHAVIOR.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2018

In that 2007 pilot test program, commuters could buy tickets in-person or online and have them delivered to their mobile phones. From there, we’ve moved to a number of different agencies, not just in the United States but around the globe.”. From paper to digital. In 2012, we moved beyond the U.K. Something for everyone.

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